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He intends to use the money Bowles offers him to travel to Constantinople and find out what has happened to his reports, the only thing that has given meaning to his life.

The year is 1908, the place is a small island in the Aegean sea. Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott lead by Martin Luther King. Unexpectedly, Bowles wants to change the terms of his contract: he has, he claims, found some small archeological object of great significance, so he wants the right to excavate to be included in a new lease. Basil quickly befriends Bowles at the hotel’s lounge bar and offers the archeologist his services as translator.

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The Pasha wants to buy the lease back; Bowles asks for a much larger sum than he originally paid. Spying on Bowles, Pascali finds the archeologist romancing Lydia; swimming naked with her in a remote cove. Pascali is devastated over his useless mistakes. A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. More than … His suspicions are roused when a British archeologist appears, who may not be ... In 1940s Kenya, a married couple join other affluent British expatriates in a lifestyle of recklessness and excess, but soon find themselves in a troubling situation. But as the film progresses, Kingsley becomes less and less of a by-the-book government functionary and more and more of an enigma--to Dance, to Mirren, to his country, to himself.

Pascali's Island is a 1988 British drama film, based on the novel by Barry Unsworth.

The ploy becomes more complicated when, by chance, Bowles makes a genuinely important archeological discovery: a large bronze statue of a boy from Greek times that is in pristine condition.

Pascali asks for part of Bowles' earnings in exchange for his silence, forcing Bowles to concede. Pascali has been secretly in love with Lydia and envies the handsome British archeologist. Once again Pascali serves as translator and intermediary with the Pasha, who seeing the objects, a gold collar and the antique statue's head, refuses to grant the excavation rights.

For their part, the Turkish authorities tell Pascali that he will be held responsible if Bowles fails to make the full payment.

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He loved both Lydia and Bowles, but caused their deaths.

The violent ending, although hinted at throughout the film, will jar you since the tone till then has been guardedly genteel.

Pascali introduces Bowles to his close friend, Lydia Neuman, a bohemian Austrian painter resident in the island.

After two decades in prison for murder, a man is released on parole and returns to his hometown seeking redemption. Pascali, already regretting having betrayed his friends, returns home to find the money and a letter from Bowles trying to help him leave the island.

Richard Francis Burton and Lt. John Hanning Speke's tumultuous expedition to find the source of the Nile river. Pascali's Island takes place in 1908 on a Greek Island still in the possession of the decaying Ottoman Empire.